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Local Government • Participation in Livable Communities Local Housing Incentives Program to access funding resources through the Local Housing Incentives Account, Livable Communities Demonstration Account and Tax Base Revitalization Account. • See expanded listings of local initiatives under Housing Development and Housing Rehabilitation and Redevelopment Programs sections. Local Official Controls and Approvals Local controls - zoning, subdivision regulation, building code, design requirements for public improvements and the approvals process - impact both the type and cost of new housing. In doing so, however, they provide communities with a wide range of opportunities to make changes in these controls that can expand local affordable and life -cycle housing options. In preparing LCA Action Plans and in addressing future local housing development issues, communities should pledge to examine and evaluate the impact of a number of their local controls on the cost of residential development and redevelopment. The following is a checklist of local controls and requirements that a community, in preparing its LCA Action Plan, might propose to review and evaluate in the immediate future to determine if they are adequate, insufficient or unnecessarily excessive and should be revised, added to or eliminated. These controls and regulations may include: • Sufficient available undeveloped or underutilized land guided or zoned for medium and high density residential development or redevelopment. • Planned unit, mixed-use and cluster development ordinances that include potential residential density bonuses and transfers. • The flexibility to employ zero lot line development or other innovative site planning techniques. • The length and complexity of the local approvals process. • Environmental regulations such as tree and wetland preservation requirements that are stricter than those required by state law or regional policy. • Local requirements regarding: o minimum lot sizes and widths c minimum floor area o increased building height flexibility o garage and off-street parking variances o set -back requirements o inclusion of private streets in subdivision development o sidewalks or non -motorized pathways o park and trail dedications o minimum right-of-way, pavement widths and depth for different streets o storm sewer design - pipe diameter, distance between catch basins, etc. o street lighting o trees, tree replacement and foliage 5 2010 Housing Action Plan Checklist